Week on The Web: Duck lanes, Dodgeball & Taylor Swift
The weird and the wonderful from this week on the web!
Have you ever found yourself spending hours searching for interesting stories, entertaining videos and other weird and wonderful offerings of the worldwide web? We have and we've put some of our favourites together for you!
Duck Lanes Yes this was the week where Manchester, London and Birmingham introduced a temporary initiative introduced by the Canal and River Trust to remind us to be mindful of the space we share with animals when walking or cycling. We wonder if there's plans to add speed cameras to these...
Breast Cancer Awareness A serious but worthy one. This week British woman Lisa Royle posted a picture showing dimples in her breast to highlight a more subtle form of breast cancer. The picture has currently been shared more than 65,000 times and has served as a fantastic encouragement to women to monitor their bodies and look out for this and other symptoms!
One Direction Dodgeball No don't panic, they've not decided to walk away from music now they're a four piece. This was in fact a sketch for James Corden's 'The Late Late Show' where the boys embarked on the most important moment of their career, taking on the 'Ball Bashers' at Dodgeball. See more of Corden's top sketches from his new show here.
Zayn and Perrie Sing 'I Swear' On Helium The young couple have endured a lot of negativity since Zayn dramatically quit One Direction, so it's nice to see the pair still going strong in this adorable duet. It may only be a few seconds long but fans on Instagram were quick to like the video which gained 153,000 likes in under a day. Read the full article here.
Taylor Swift Broke Nicky Minaj's VEVO Record Taylor's video for her collaboration 'Bad Blood' with Kendrick Lamar features a star-studded cast including Hayley Williams, Ellie Goulding, Lena Dunham and Cindy Crawford. Within 24 hours the video had amassed over 20.1 million views, beating the record previously set by Nicky Minaj's 'Anaconda' which received 19.6 miliion in the same amount of time. Currently the video has received over 44 million views, have you seen it yet? Read the full article here.
Game Of Thrones: The Musical For Red Nose Day on NBC Coldplay and Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) teamed up for this spoof song about life in Game of Thrones. A good cause and a good laugh!
Cat Gets Brain Freeze From Ice Cream It wouldn't be a week from the web without a video of a cat. This one has ice cream too, what more could you want?
Have a great week everyone!